Tag: Mecha
Fafner: Heaven and Earth
Six years after the original series ended, Studio Xebec decided to release a sequel to Fafner in the Azure (Sokyu no Fafner), titled Heaven and Earth. The film picks up right where the series left off and shows the residents of Tatsumiya Island, having to once again fend off against the alien invaders, called Festum. [...]
Fafner: The Complete Series
It’s unfortunate that the world of Fafner is much more interesting than any one of its characters and the boring situations they find themselves in. Released in Japan in 2004, Fafner a group of Japanese people that inhabit Tatsumiya Island, a serene and quaint town that houses a well knit community, on the surface. It [...]
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
The cinematic curiosity that is writer/director Noboru Iguchi’s (The Machine Girl) 2011 film, Karate-Robo Zaborgar, serves as both a comedic send-up of the live action mecha dramas so popular in Japan in the 1970′s and a fairly faithful adaptation of 1974′s Denjin Zaborger, according to my cursory research into the series. Although it’s not uncommon [...]
Martian Successor Nadesico: Complete Collection
When the United Forces military proves incapable of protecting their settlements on Mars from assault by the Jovian Federation, Nergal Industries steps in with a state-of-the-art civilian battleship and takes the front lines in the war against the “Jovian Lizards.” The ship, they christen the Nadesico, and this anime tells the story of the Nadesico’s [...]
Gasaraki: Complete Series
Nozomi Entertainment has been on a roll with their license rescues from other companies and one of the real surprises was when they announced that they were rereleasing Gasaraki. Made in 1998 by Sunrise and released by ADV Films, Gasaraki was Sunrise’s attempt to make something along the lines of the successful Neon Genesis Evangelion, [...]
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